Volume 2

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1578-1657. De motu cordis. English
Date:
1653
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Credit: The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wheres T lid] dangs afterwards being collaps'd , and all i] motion of refpiration gone, you may ea- t] fily try it, to wit, that the /eft ear is cons tie] tracted and emptyed , that it becomes ‘sn more whitifh, and that it doth atlaft, ty] together with the left ventricle, intermit dit in its pulfe, beat leifurely, and at laft leave w off: And likewile by the hole which you ai (may cut in the arterte, you may fee the ml blood come forth leffe and leffe in a imal- («1 ler thred, and chat at laft, ( to wit, in che wt defe& of blood, and the impulfion of the in 1 deft ventricle) no more will flow. fo) You may likewife try this fame in the iy | tying of the vene arteriofa, and fo cake a- | way the pulfe of che deft ear, and with un- nw | tying it,reftore the pulfe at your pleafüre. ie | Whence the fame thing is evidently try’d t; S by experiment, which is feen in dying per- » (fons, that as firft the deft ventricle defilts we from motion and pulfe, and afterwards ithe left ear, then the right ventricle, , | & pulfe , laftly, the rigbr ear ; fo where | Athe vital faculty begins firft y. it ends laft. ' | Which being tried by the fenfe, it is ma- -Jnifeft, that the blood paffes only through | the /eptum of the heart, and not through | the /angs, and only through them whilft »Mthey are mov'd in refpiration, and not (when they are fallen or di(quieted. For ' Wwhich caufein an E»£ryos ( not as yet ^ breathing) Nature inftead of the paffage » Win the arterta veso[a, (that matter ar qd be | ul
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